Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-02
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Woman Reigns a Queen in a Realm
Limitess, She Rules The Ma
tons Of the World.
The Vote CT Tho Christlan Kan Sulli-
fled by the Vote ST The Sot and
the Libcrtine.
Man Not Superior to Woman IN Intellccs
nor JVomnn TO HTan IE i II, cttoi.-
WumeI's Opportunity.
Special 10 the Gazette.

hClnteB' l opportunity
Special 70 the Gazette.
TIE HAMPToNs, Aug. . -"WCmal's
Opportunity" was tie SUBJECT Of dis
course by the Rev. T. Dewitt TaImsge,
D. D., to- day, and his text: $50 God
created man in His own image; in the
image of God created He him; male and
female cheated lie them. Gen. y.
Following is the sermon in full:
In other words, God-wlo can make no
mistake-msde man aud woman for
specific work, and to move il particular
spheres; man to be regnsut IN his realm;
woman to be dominant in hers. TIE
boundary line between Italy and SwitZar-
land, between England and Scotland, is
net more thoroughly marked thal this
distinction between the
EmrIRE MASCULINE
and the emplr1 feminine. So entirely dis
similar are the fields to Which God called
them thst yCu can 10 more compare them
tlan you can oxygen and hydrogen, water
snd grass, trees and stars. All this talk
about the superiority Of one sex TO the
other sex is az everlasting waste Of ink
and speech. \ jeWeler may have scale
so delicate that ne can weigh the dust Of
diamonds; but where are the
scales so delicate that you can
weigh in them affection egainst affection,
sentiment against sentiment, thought
against thought, soul against soul,
mans world against g woman's world?
You come out with your stereotyped re-
mark, the man il superior TO woman in
intelleCt and then | open on my desk
The swarthy, irOn-typed, thuuder-bClted
writings Of Harriet Mertineau, and Eliz-
abeth Browning and George Eliot. You
come en- with your stereOtyped remark
about WCmsn'5 superiority 10 man IL the
item OF affection; but | ask you where
was there more capacity to love Tran in
John the disciple, and Robert MCCLeyne
the Scotchmsp, End John Summarized
the Methodist, end Henry Martin the
missionary? The heart Of those men
was so large that after you had rolled
into it two hemispheres, there was room
still left TO marshal the hosts CT heaven,
and set up the throne If the eternal Je-
h0vah. | deny to man the throne intellect
ual. deny to woman the throne affection
81. No human pAraseOlOgy will ever define
the spheres, while there is an intuition by
which we know when 3 m&n is in his
realm, and when g woman is in her realm,
and when either Of them is out OF i. Nc
bungling Legislature ought to attempt 10
make definition, or to say "This IS
the line and that is the line" My theory
is that If .
WOMAN WANTS TO VOTE
she ought to vote, and that if man wants
~ hrni1ar I'D 10 .,
| be allowed 10 embrOider and keep house.
There are masculine women and there are
efeminate men. My theory is that you
have no right to interfere with snyone's
doing anything that is righteous. Albany
and Washington might as well decree By
legislation how high s broWnthrasher
should fly, or how deep trout should
| plunge, as to try to seek out the height or
the depth of wOman's duty. The ques-
! ton OF capacity will settle finally the
whole question, the whole subject. When
8 woman is prepared 10 preach she Will
| preach, snd neither conference nor pres
| bytery can hinder her. When womAn is
prepared to move in highest commercial
spheres she viii have great influence on
! the exchange, End no boards Of trade can
hinder her. ! want woman to understand
[ L4loL L4EhlL Cb1iNA J4ClL Sdu OfCLLJ any DAA-
rier that politicians may set up, and that
nothing can keep her back or keep he1
| down but the question of incapaCity.
There 6re women, know, of most an
! desirable nature, who wander up and
| down the CONTEMPLATING no homes Of
/ their own, or forsakiDg their own homes
talking about their rights; and we
/ know very well that they themselves are
/ 1i+ b,- 70 20 k-Co
| Their mission seems to be 10 humiliate
| the two sexes ct the thought of what any
! one of US might become. No one would
want TO live under the laws that such
women would enact, or to have cast upon
society the children that such women
would raise. But | shall show you this
morning that the best rights that women
csn own, she already has in her posses
sion; that her position in this country 81
| this time is not one Of commiseratiCn, but
one OF cOngratulation; that the grandeur
and power of her realm have never yet
been appreciated; that she sits to-day on
q throne so high, that Ill the thrones Of
EARTH PILED ON T0T
of each other would not make for her 9
footstoOl. Here is the platform on which
she stands. Away down below IL ale the
bsllot-boX ana the congressional assemb-
lage and the legislative hall. Woman
always has voted and slWays will vote
Our great grandfsthers thought they
were by their votes putting Washington
into the presidential chair. No
His mother, by the principles she
taught him, and by the habits
she inculcated, made him President. 1t
was Christian mother's hand dropping
the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, end
Newton philosophical, and Alfred the
Great governed, and Jonathan Edwards
Numbered OF Judgment TO come. How
many men there nave been in high pOliti.
cal station, who would have been insult
Gent to stand the test TO which thei!
moral principle was put, hsd it not beer
for wite'5 voice that encouraged then
to do right, and t wiie's prayer ths'
sounded louder than the cIamCr of parti
sanship. Why, my friends, the right 0.
suffrage, ss We men exercise j., seems tC
be feeble thing. You, & Christian MAI
come up to the ballot box and you drOl
your vote. Right after you comes IJsr
tine, or 2 sOt-tle CaScQuyicg CT tht
: strickland he drOns his vote; cad hi
vote COuntereCts yours. But If in tat
quiet of home life daughter h7 he.
, Cdr,sr8ia dameanCT, ii vie ny her indus
try, . mother ~ ber tait5tplness, casts
vote in the TigGt direction, then EO.li1.
can resist i, and the influence 1t thG
vote viii fhro0 through the e-errities.
My chief anxiety then i, not TIA
woman have other rights accorded heT
but that she, by the grace Cf G0d, rise u
to the appreciation Of TIE glorious right